Stephen Leacock Quotes About Science

Quotes about: Science

• In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.

  Stephen Leacock

  Lying, Fall, Science

  Stephen Leacock (1939). “Model memoirs and other sketches from simple to serious”

• Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.

  Stephen Leacock

  Science, Two, Differences

  Stephen Leacock (1910). “Literary Lapses: A Book of Sketches”

• The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

  Stephen Leacock

  Science, Swag, House

  'Literary Lapses' (1910) 'Boarding-House Geometry'

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